The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-07-08
The MISSISSIPPI PRNITRx.
TIARY.
Board Of Controls Report.
551 ConViets at Work on the Gulf
and ship Railroad.

651 ConV1efs az Work On the Gull
a and ship Railroad.
y The Board Of Control having, on
g the 18th add 18th uIt-, made an in.
{ spectiOu OF the peuiteutIary con-
/ victs u Harrison county at work in
the construction OF the Gulf and
: Ship Island Railroad, they ordered
that the following be entered upon
! the minutes Of the Board as the re-
suit OF said inspection:
There are in Harrison eouuty, at
work % said road. sol eouviets, df.
vided into three camps. We 6nd
the rules and regulations establish
ed for the government OF the peui-
Tertiary violated IN the following
particulars:
lst-COpies Of the printed rules
and regulations are not preserved
and placed 10 the hands of the
guards
3d-Couvicts are permitted to act
as guards.
3d-Sufheient hospital accommo-
datious are not furnished, 10 this
The diet provided for the sick IL not
suitable. In q camp there is no
separate place OF confinement or
hospital for them, but they are
placed IN the stockade With other
e%onvicts, with no bedding exeept
some worn and exceedingly dirty
blankets The necessity for better
accommodations tor the sick IS
shown BIZ the tact that there are 81
on the sick list 10 the three camps,
fifteen of whom have the measles.
Sufficient truSses are not provided.
some OF the eoHvicts With hernia
being at work without them.
4Eh-Conviets have not. all of
them sufficient clothing for schsnge.
aud 10 enable them to keep e.eanly
and free from yeFmin.
5th-Ihe coBviets are not washed
or given an opportunity to wash {
themselves as the rules and reguEa-
tons require.
6th-No devotional or religious
exercises are provided az these
camps, as required by rhe rules and
regulations, 50 far az has come to
the knOwledge of this Board.
7rh-SOme of the c0nyicfs are al. i.
lowed 10 90 without the convict :
guard, in open violation and dISre T
gard OF the rules aud regulations Il
prescribed by the Board of Control.
The tOliOEing eOnvicts were
fOuud to be unit for duty of any :
kind 1t the camps IN question, aud
DECLARED TO he by the ply sieianS
10 Charge, and it \ therefore iii
rected that said c~OnvicfS, viz: No. 4
rs, - G0olWyu, aud $50, Bot n
Eastman, be returned TO the wallis ,
1t Jaeksuu. We find that they are
&eil feti. and ~ Instances of cruel
at the camps ia question
iave come 10 c1r knOulrdgr. a,
AT the mertiug held hy tue Boari
Mississippi Cry, Juue 18th, a "
communication a addressed To :
w. H. Hardy, the president n
the Cult aud Ship Island Rail il
DAD, calling his attention aud that
the lessees TO the foregoing ia
Of violation OF the rules and
and insisting on the
observance of the same. n
Ii is row ordered that tue Iessees
"a requested tU meet the Board ct "
,Outroi to morrow morning at 10
clock for 4 conference relative 10 De
be subject matter OF said report. %
{ Is fuFth her ordered that Hon.
David johnson, Superintendent OF
be peuItentiary, be again, as be p,
AS by letter from Mississippi Civ, sce
-qOested 10 repair 10 said camns, M
nd remain there, aud report az 3:
nee any failure on the part of the reu
to observe aud en- on
,rce the said rules aud regulations.
Complaint having been made by -
II. Writ JOhusnu, physician 10 the 2
eOiteutiary, that the lessee tails to OF {
lrnish suitable diet aud bedding :
II cOuvicts who are sick and in the =
ospital, Col. w. L. Nugeut, attor.
y for tue lessees, upon the matter
eng brought TO his attention b,
10 Board, promised that, upon
QUESTION being made by Or.
'hustOU, such food aud articles as -.
demanded should be furnished
T the sick. M